Dr Stephen Atherton
BA (Hons) Geography & Education, MA, PhD (Aberystwyth), PGCTHE (Aberystwyth), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Lecturer
Associate Dean - Learning & Teaching and Student Experience
Contact Details
- Email: sta@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 2.34, Penbryn Building 5
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628601
- Twitter: @aberste
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Stephen received a 1st class degree BA (Hons) in Geography and Education, and was awarded funding by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for an MA (passed with distinction) and Doctorate (awarded in 2011), all at Aberystwyth University. Stephen was awarded a PGCTHE in 2012 and is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- ED13820 - The Learner and the Learning Environment
- ED14220 - Numeracy and Literacy for All
- ED21100 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
- ED21100 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
- ED24320 - Safeguarding and Professional Practice
- ED24420 - Supporting Learners with Complex Needs
- ED24520 - Policies and Perspectives of Learning Difference and Inclusion
- ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
- ED33020 - Communicating Science: the Scientists, the Media and the Public
- ED33640 - Major dissertation
- ED33640 - Major dissertation
- EDM7220 - Children, Global Citizenship & Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policy & Practice
Lecturer
- ED13820 - The Learner and the Learning Environment
- ED14020 - Effective Classroom Practices and Teaching Skills
- ED33640 - Major dissertation
- ED13920 - ICT in Learning and Teaching
- ED24420 - Supporting Learners with Complex Needs
- ED14220 - Numeracy and Literacy for All
- ED24320 - Safeguarding and Professional Practice
- ED24520 - Policies and Perspectives of Learning Difference and Inclusion
- ED33020 - Communicating Science: the Scientists, the Media and the Public
- ED33600 -
- ED14120 - Inclusive Learning Practices
- ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
- ED39200 -
Tutor
Research
Stephen's research has predominantly been in areas of gender and the military from which he has drawn key educational, geographical and sociological themes. His research has particularly focused on areas such as home and the family, emotions and memory, children's access to education and services, and adult education and training. Throughout these themes Stephen has engaged with a critical analysis of the social construction of gender, with specific emphasis on how masculinities are performed from a cultural repertoire of identities that are temporally and spatially contingent.
Stephens research is now developing into a number of strands, including;
- The productions and performances of gendered identities in young children
- Technology and pedagogy
- Skills development in Higher Education
- Adult Education and training
- Children in Army families.